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29 Jan 2009
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
Well, it's been a great show thus far. The things are starting slowly this morning as Cisco threw a heckuva customer appreciation event last night and it seems that most of the attendees had a great time and enjoyed the free beverages (maybe we should be handing out aspirin instead of t-shirts today?)... The coolest thing I've heard thus far came from talking with my buddies at Cisco about some of the new features going into NetFlow v9 this year. I can't talk much about it yet, but I'm pretty darn excited. More on this to come within the next bit... Flame on... Josh
27 Jan 2009
by: Dawn_L  |  Filed Under: No Categories
You know, most times, going "green" is painful process. For Bruce Banner it involves a lot of pain, stretched bones, skin, and cartilage, and an entire new wardrobe. For us geeks it usually involves making some serious compromises to our lifestyles and work habits and nobody likes doing those things. Honestly, I may not be the greenest guy in world. I did consider buying a Prius, but there really wasn't room for both dogs in the back let alone decoys and coolers so I decided to pass. I did have a chance to play with the Prius control panel and it's super geeky ...
24 Jan 2009
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
As I sit here in the Newark airport, enjoying the free beverages in the President's Club and trying to stay awake long enough to board the flight to Spain, it occurs to me that maybe some of you have been to or are going to Barcelona this week. A group of us from SolarWinds are heading over to attend Cisco Networkers. It's looking like a great trip and we're even going to have some free time to see the sights which is always a plus. So, if you're going to be there this week ping me and I'll buy you a drink or two. Also, if you have any restaurant/bar recommendations...
20 Jan 2009
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
Today I was sitting in a room with some colleagues and a debate started about which one is better - NetFlow vs. sFlow . Part of the people believed that NetFlow is better because it doesn't just sample the data (by default anyway) and sends all of the details. Part of the people liked sFlow better because it automatically samples the data and keeps the database size more manageable. Some of the people claimed that sFlow is better because it's processed at a hardware level and some of the people claimed that this was also true of some NetFlow devices. Some of the folks claimed...
16 Jan 2009
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
Many of us have now realized that more bandwidth doesn't necessarily mean faster applications. Add that to the fact that bandwidth doesn't come for free and suddenly we're talking about way to optimize our networks... There are many, many ways tweak our networks for better application performance. As a matter of fact, I think I'll write a more detailed blog post on that next week as it's a cool topic and one that is near and dear to my heart. That said, one of the ways that many people are now accelerating applications on the WAN is to implement WAN optimzation...





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